Peid Piper

Description:

The novel by Nevil Shute. As the German army overruns France . An old Englishman returning to Britain agrees to escort two children to London. Trains, buses, hotels fail him and each shift in his plans adds a new child until he and six children attempt to evade the Nazis and cross the English Channel.

subjects: Family values,  Fiction, historical,  World war, 1939-1945, fiction,  France, fiction,  Fairy tales,  Refugee children,  Fiction,  World War, 1939-1945,  History,  Social aspects,  Fiction, action & adventure,  Older men,  British,  Abandoned children,  Rescues,  Fiction, historical, general

Places: Switzerland,  Jura,  Brittany,  France

Times: 1940,  Europe,  World War II